Ghana lacked finishing touches

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Ghana, fired by the dangerous Kevin-Prince Boateng and Kwadwo Asamoah, caused so many problems that Bastian Schweinsteiger and Sami Khedira spent most of their time fighting fires inside their own half.

It says much for Ghana's skill, spirit and workrate that even after Ozil's superb goal they continued to rattle Germany and it needed a captain's display from right-back Philipp Lahm to keep the defence in any sort of shape.